School of Prophets: A Bicentennial History of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School

In commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School’s beginnings
with thirteen men and thirteen dollars
this significant work unfolds the organizational history of a great theological seminary, as well as the dramatic story of the notable women and men who contributed to the school’s rich legacy. Hence, while this is a bicentennial history of an institution, it is fundamentally the history of the people who have epitomized, shaped, and advanced its expanding heritage. Thus, the narrative includes chapters about institutional growth and development, as well as chapters that serve as cameo biographies of key people who exemplified the spirit of that same period: William Newton Clark

Walter Rauschenbusch

Howard Thurman

Joanna P. Moore

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the final analysis, founding president Augustus Strong was correct to call this a story of bricks, brains, and books, but in the larger sense it is an account of the galvanizing prophetic